THE NEW YORKER elations that follow upon the ]a t of these, the discover} of the embezzle- ment, are lIke so many blows in the face. Convictions that a man of good will has spent a virtuous lifetime acquir- ing are put to the test and found. . . not wanting but not useful. The words he has lived by, if never uttered-truth, honor, prohity-are suddenly found tt> be worse than nonsense; they are beside the point. At the moment when they should most apply, they are most irrele- vant. In the face of this astonishing de- velopment, Arthur Winner, still pro- foundly good, still sure that it is wrong to tell a lie, can only turn in haste to a new Set of irrelevancies: that he is stronger than his enemies (in fact, he has no enemies) ; that he will endure (in fact, nobody endures). He will get up, he will seem to survive the blows, but life will never be the same for him. Such is the power of Ylr. Cozzens' master- piece that life may never be the same for us. We will be nursing Arthur Win- ner's hurt, and ours, for a long while to come. -BRENDAN GILL ßR.IEFL Y NOTED FICTION PILLAR OF CLOUD, by Jackson Burgess (Putnam) . Just before the Civil War, a small band of pioneers, led by a professional guide, try to find their way from Kansas to the West but are stopped cold when one of them kills an Indian and gets them al1 into trouble. Mr. Burgess writes about the frontier without any of the usual hokum, but his story fades quickly from the mind once it is over. A first novel and a Literary Guild selection. LOVE AMONG THE CANNIBALS, by W right Morris (Harcourt, Brace). A distasteful little effort at a hu- morous novel about a couple of song- writers who take a couple of girls to Mexico for a couple of weeks. Occa- sionally, Mr. Morris seems to be tell- ing us that there is some point to his tale, but those of us who have spent any time at all with the funny papers are unlikely to be fooled. THE HILLS OF BEVERLY, by Libbie Block (Doubledav ) . Miss Block, who sees a similarity between life at the court of France a few hun- dred years ago and life among the movie people today, has adopted a mock-archaIc style for her account of the effects of gossip and business in trigue on the marriage of a pro- ducer and an heiress. The parody is rather skillful, but SInce she does not provide much evidence for the point of view behind it, the book dwindles 109 )-: . . . < '" "'.("\,o. ... "" "< .,' ."'- 't : .. \. M ..... ." -: ":.::.- ., ,-'..:'. >. ff , . ,-"'. . . '., y -> y.: , : :',:,-<. ""'u: ., .:. I ." :"",., "..'t " ......... ,:"' :>;:. : : ;' '<" 'f,,' .'.>'^"".< ' ;; ': .,:,\:^ . .:-.... '". ....... . --:: .1;,. ... if' ,:."/ ." : -::::.., .i -...:. t PROBABLY 1H[ MOST IMPORT ANT DESIGNS Of THE 2Dtb C[NTURY I N 'G E R Be SONS 36 EAST 19TH ST. N. Y. 3 · ALGONQUIN 4..4612 Showrooms: Scfo: CARLO O:E CARLI, II rcht:Üd .'1 \ '.* '" ); ." .. .:. ., I" " NEW YORK : 36 EAST 19TH ST.. N." Y. 3 & 41 EAST 57TH ST., N. Y. 22 CHICAGO: M. stNGER 6: SO'NS, (5t9 ME CHANDISE MART BOSTON : PEVONSERVlCt SiAN F ANCfSCO . K;NEEPLER-F'AUCHEnE LOS ANGELES: KNEEDl.ER-F'AUCHERE MIAMi: F'fTZPATRlCK G.RA.HAM DAI..LAS (DECOFtATIVECENTERJ: J;:: C. PICKEN ThroughdecoratoTS., deal rs, architects. Send jor brochure 30 SUBSCRIPTION BLANK THe NeW' YORKeR 25 WEST 43RD STREET NEW YORK CITY 36, N. Y. Please enter my subscription to your magazine for 01 YEAR; 02 YEARS. My remittance is enclosed u. S. and Possessions ] year-$7.00; 2 years-$12.00 Canada, Latin America } and Spain 1 year- 8.00; 2 years- 14.00 Other Foreign ] year-10.00; 2 years- 18.00 Subscribers ordering a change of address are requested to notify us at least four \veeks in advance and to give us their old address as \vell as the ne\v. Please include postal zone numbers for both addresses. NAME ADDRESS (P lease include þostal zone ll'll1nber)